striking off

Verb

strike off (third-person singular simple present strikes off, present participle striking off, simple past struck off, past participle struck off or stricken off)

1. (transitive) To remove from a list or register.
   • She struck off his name from the list.
   1. (UK, transitive, usually, passive voice) To be forbidden from practicing in a regulated profession (medicine, law etc.) by virtue of being removed (usually for malpractice) from a statutory register required to practice that profession.
      • The doctor was struck off the medical register for professional misconduct.
2. (dated, transitive) To void an obligation; to deduct.
   • He was kind enough to strike off the debt.
3. (transitive) To print (a work) in a hurried manner.
   • Nothing is heard but the monotonous houp! hank! of the Indians, as in a cloud of steam of their own manufacture, they strike off the paper. Nothing can be seen without but a shower of quarters, bits, and dimes darkening the air as they are thrown from the purchasers.1856, George Derby [writing as John Phoenix], Phœnixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 134
4. (transitive) To sever or separate by a blow.
   • Strike off his head, I command you!
5. (intransitive) To start going in a new direction or course of endeavor.
   • She decided to strike off on a new course.